San Francisco Criticism Won’t Hurt Gascón
Is this how San Franciscans express their love? San Francisco’s mayor and city attorney both appeared to be settling scores when they endorsed Los Angeles D.A. Jackie Lacey in her re-election bid. This endorsement was reported as a snub of George Gascón, the San Francisco D.A. who quit and moved back to L.A to run […]
The Attempt to Buy District Attorneys Continues
After the Supreme court decided Citizens United, special interest dark money flooded political campaigns. District Attorney races, traditionally non-partisan, non-political, were not spared from this onslaught. Eighteen months ago we wrote about an example of this problem. Special interest groups, funded by George Soros, pumped millions of dollars into district attorney races across the county. […]
The Complex Spending Limit Was Flawed
In his Friday column, “The Spending Limit is Dead,” Joel Fox is correct that the provisions of the 1979 measure designed to limit state spending simply do not function for the intended purpose of limiting state and local spending. The idea was to create a spending limit line that only grew with cost of living and […]
Worried about social media and elections? What about our public media?
The recent controversy over Facebook’s decision not to fact-check political ads by politicians — combined with Twitter’s decision not to run any — has shown how intertwined our political culture is with what are de facto privately-owned, public information utilities. Whether and how to regulate social media giants – including whether to break them up […]